End of Fix for v6?

[micoolpaul]

Hi,

Veeam gave us a lot of product updates just before the end of 2023, however I want to clarify the end of fix status for some of them please.
https://www.veeam.com/product-lifecycle.html
This lists Veeam Recovery Orchestrator v6 as end of fix at the next GA date, but v7 was released in December 2023?
I understand that the overall Veeam Data Platform update as v12.1 instead of v13, so I want to know if v6 will remain in support until the VDP v13 release will arrive?

The same question goes for Veeam Backup for AWS/Azure/GCP please as I know they have all had updates too, unfortunately I could only post in one forum.

Thanks!

[Alec King]

Hello Michael,
Happy New Year!
And regarding the product lifecycle page - I can see it needs updated. VRO should have v7 added. Also VBs for public cloud all need updated to latest version. I will contact the page owner and get it fixed.

On the specifics for VRO, it's correct that release of v7 would be end of fix for v6. This was a major update for VRO, with numerous changes in UI workflow for example. So we treat it as a major version.
However we do in fact plan to ship a security patch this month for VRO v6 and it will also apply to v5; so as you can see we do not strictly enforce the End of Fix status when it comes to certain issues such as security. However going forward, the first step to resolve most issues would be to advise upgrade to v7.

Regarding VB for Google Cloud, we just shipped v5 so that signals end of fix for v4.

Regarding other cloud products, I will direct the relevant PMs to this post.

Cheers,
Alec

[micoolpaul]

And to you! Thank you for sorting I felt confident that would be the case but I’m also conscious that they’re all requiring v12.1 but there hasn’t been an end of fix to v12 “technically” due to v12.1 being an update, so just wanted to be 100%. Appreciate the prompt response!